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A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm
A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm wherein the nature of the forgiveness of sin is declared, the truth and reality of it asserted, and the case of a soul distressed with the guilt of sin and relieved by a discovery of forgiveness with God is at large discoursed / by John Owen.
London: printed by Robert White for Nathaniel Ponder, 1669
AN EXPOSITION UPON PSALM CXXX. › General Scope of the whole Psalm. › Verses 5, 6: Verse 5, 6.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The first proper fruit of faiths discovery of forgiveness in God unto a sin-distressed soul, is waiting in patience and expectation.
1This the Psalmist openly and directly applies himself unto, and expresseth to have been as his duty, so his practice. And he doth it so emphatically, as was manifested in the opening of the words, that I know not that any duty is any where in the Scripture so recommended and lively represented unto us.
- 1Waiting the first fruit of Faith in a way of Duty.
You must therefore for the right understanding of it, call to mind what hath been spoken concerning the state of the soul inquired into; its depths, entanglements, and sense of sin, with its Application unto God about those things; As also remember what hath been delivered about the nature of forgiveness, with the Revelation that is made of it unto the faith of Believers, And that this may be done, where the soul hath no refreshing sense of its own interest therein. It knows not that its own sins are forgiven, although it believes that there is forgiveness with God. Now the principal duty that is incumbent on such a soul, is that laid down in the proposition, namely, patient waiting and expectation.
You must therefore for the right understanding of it, call to mind what hath been spoken concerning the state of the soul inquired into; its depths, intanglements, and sense of sin, with its Application unto God about those things; As also remember what hath been delivered about the nature of forgiveness, with the Revelation that is made of it unto the faith of Believers, And that this may be done, where the soul hath no refreshing sense of its own interest therein. It knows not that its own sins are forgiven, although it believes that there is forgiveness with God. Now the principal duty that is incumbent on such a soul, is that laid down in the proposition, namely, patient waiting and expectation.